FTR had a stellar 2022, picking up titles all over the world. None of that would have been possible without their run in WWE coming to an end. Now, they are looking at the conclusion of their current AEW contracts this year, and many fans are wondering what the Top Guys will do next.
During Dax Harwood’s FTR Podcast, he revealed that the day Mark Carrano called to inform them of their WWE releases, Dax and Cash were both on the phone with people from AEW.
The day that Mark Carrano called us, so two days before the announcement [of the Revival’s release from WWE] was made online, he called us and said ‘you don’t have to give us an answer right now, talk about it, give me a call back.’ I called Cash. We said, should we talk to Cody, or the Bucks, or Tony? He said yeah, let’s do that.
So we sent the Bucks a text and said hey, there’s a possibility that we may be leaving WWE, would you guys ever be interested in having us? And he said ‘well I would love to have you.’ That’s all we needed to know. So we called Mark Carrano, yes, we agree to your terms. Please give us our release, and thank you.” So he gave us our release. The following day, whenever the contracts were cut and we got the paperwork from Mark Carrano that said we were officially released, is when we started talking contracts with Tony Khan.
Dax on FTR
The two had a non-compete clause with WWE. So, they couldn’t appear on any other television program for 90 days. This meant that they still got their downside guarantees during that time, but they had to wait to make their AEW debuts.
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